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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: several down the rectangular stem

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 29 July 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courcelles_(Loiret)_-_Église_Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur_-_14.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2023]

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia

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design element - patterns - ribbed - flat

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Chœur inachevé et chapelle Saint-Hubert, église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur, Courcelles, Loiret, France"

Image Source: digital photograph 1 November 2009 by Croquant [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courcelles_église_Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur_5.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2023]

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view of church interior - apse

Scene Description: Source caption: "Chœur inachevé de l'église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur, Courcelles, Loiret, France"

Image Source: digital photograph 1 November 2009 by Croquant [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courcelles_église_Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur_3.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur de Courcelles (Loiret, Centre, France)."

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courcelles_(Loiret)_-_Église_Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur_-_11.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur de Courcelles (Loiret, Centre, France)."

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur de Courcelles (Loiret, Centre, France)."

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courcelles_(Loiret)_-_Église_Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur_-_12.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24727COU

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur

Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder], St. Anne, St. Apolline

Church Location: 6 Rue du Tertre, 45300 Courcelles-le-Roi, France -- Tel.: 02 38 33 11 76

Country Name: France

Location: Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire

Directions to Site: Located off the A19, RD44, RD113, RD138, RD144, about 40 km NE of Orléans

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Orléans [formerly in the Diocèse de Sens]

Historical Region: Pithiverais-Gâtinais / Centre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a side chapel

Date: 1686

Century and Period: 17th century(late), Renaissance

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: reported 12thC(?) church dedicated to "saint Jacques-le-Majeur, sainte Anne et sainte Apolline"; enlarged 1406-1604 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099045]: "L'église remonte au début du 13e siècle"

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Mémoire [ref.: AP45W01469] and illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP45W01469]: "Les fonts se composent d'une base, d'un pied et d'une vasque qui n'ont vraisemblablement pas été taillés l'un pour l'autre [...] 1686 [...] H = 105 ; la = 78 [...] Oeuvre restaurée en 2014 par l'atelier Le Sciapode." As noted above, the basin and base do not appear to belong together, thus forming a composite object that consists of a roughly oval basin decorated with a torus-scotia around the rim, and a pattern of flat ribs around the basin sides and underbowl; rectangular pedestal with several parallel mouldings. Metal cover, oval dome with cross finial. The restoration of the font was reported in the 5 June 2014 edition of La République du Centre [https://www.larep.fr/courcelles-45300/actualites/les-fonts-baptismaux-neufs-de-retour_11031115/] [accessed 4 July 2023]: "En restauration depuis huit mois, les fonts baptismaux viennent de retrouver leur place devant le retable du fond de l'église paroissiale Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur, Sainte-Anne, Sainte-Apolline." The entry for this church in Wikipedia https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Église_Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur_de_Courcelles-le-Roi] [accessed 4 July 2023] reports "un bénitier d'une qualité exceptionnelle de la même époque, avec toute la grandeur et la dignité sévère du style Louis XIV" but gives no reference to it. The holy-water stoup is also noted in the Sauvegarde de l’Art Français [https://www.sauvegardeartfrancais.fr/projets/courcelles-eglise-saint-jacques-le-majeur/] [accessed 4 July 2023], but we could not find a listing for it in Mémoire.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.09753, 2.316463

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 5' 51.11" N, 2° 18' 59.27" E

UTM: 31U 449108 5327366

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: oval (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: oval

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: oval dome with cross finial